I don't know if illegals actually file tax returns...what they do is get the fake SS# to get DLs, and fill out their W2s and they are taxed on their pay checks including SS which they never see a dime of.

quote:The employer MUST send a copy of the tax statement to the IRS, not just the employee. The IRS isn't guessing what you made. They've got it from the guy who issued your check.

You think the IRS checks every W-2 to determine fraud? That would be a pretty serious undertaking and even if they did the employer has plausible deniability...it's just a crack in the system...one we benefit from.

Maricopa County had (past tense) federal authority delegated to detain and investigate suspected illegal immigration via the federal 287(g) program, but it was yanked because of what the feds deemed as civil rights violations.

quote:The 287(g) program, one of ICE’s top partnership initiatives, allows a state and local law enforcement entity to enter into a partnership with ICE, under a joint Memorandum of Agreement (MOA). The state or local entity receives delegated authority for immigration enforcement within their jurisdictions.

As for the notion that illegals are a net to government coffers... The federal and state government might come out ahead, but local governments are taking it in the nads, because they are the ones who pay for the schools, the jails, the courts and the hospitals.

quote:Do you believe it is reasonable for a suspect to wait 40 minutes while the police try to get a drug dog to the scene, then when the dog arrives on scene, it never alerts?

It is both unreasonable and illegal. I did not see any instance of this cited in the opinion, though (it's 148 pages).

In Illinois v. Caballes, the Supreme Court held that holding anyone pulled over for a traffic violation for longer than it was reasonable to take care of the original violation to wait for a drug dog is illegal, because it turns a traffic violation into a drug investigation without any cause, just a hunch.

quote:So holding a guy for a couple of days without reasonable suspicion of committing any crime is reasonable?

I think people who are held for longer periods are actually arrested for the original traffic violation, which is kosher under Atwater v. Lago Vista.

ETA: And they were arresting people for violating Arizona's human trafficking laws.

quote:Because passengers present a risk to officer safety equal to the risk presented by the driver, an officer may ask for identification from passengers and run background checks on them as well. - United States v. Rice, 483 F.3d 1079 (10th Cir. 2007)

This goes to each state's stop-and-identify statutes. I know that in Texas, if you have not been arrested, or if you are simply a passenger in the vehicle, you do not have to provide any identifying information, either verbally or with "papers." They can ask, but they can't demand.